Reasoning tasks sharply raise AI costs, according to a new analysis by Artificial Analysis. Google's Gemini Flash 2.5 costs 150 times more to run than Flash 2.0, due to using 17 times more tokens and ...

A new report highlights how Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is outperforming Western benchmarks with a research team that is almost entirely China-based—and what that means for the US’s position in global ...

OpenAI is reportedly in discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about using AI to help evaluate pharmaceuticals, according to a new report from Wired. At the center of the talks ...

Running inside Qwen Chat, it lets users generate front-end code from a single instruction. A prompt like "Create a Twitter-like website" returns working HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—no coding skills or ...

Phi 4's reasoning process shown in screenshot by Simon Willison.

Bytedance has introduced Agent TARS, an experimental open-source automation tool that visually processes web pages and interacts with the command line and file system, currently limited to macOS. The ...

ByteDance introduces Seedream 3.0, a new text-to-image model. Benchmarks suggest improvements over GPT-4o and Midjourney in speed, accuracy, and visual quality. ByteDance has released Seedream 3.0, a ...

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) promises to help medical AI systems deliver up-to-date and reliable answers. But a new review shows that, so far, RAG rarely works as intended in real-world ...

SoundCloud changed its terms of use in February 2024 to allow uploaded music to be used for AI training. AI copyright activist Ed Newton-Rex spotted the change and ...

OpenAI has been developing reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) since last December, and it is now available for verified organizations using the o4-mini model. RFT uses a programmable evaluation system, ...

Hugging Face has released a new open-source AI agent designed to handle basic computer tasks. For now, though, it feels more like a shaky tech demo than a useful assistant. The Open Computer Agent, ...

Meta has updated its U.S. privacy policy for the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to enable automatic voice recording by default. These recordings can now be used to train Meta AI and other Meta products.